I am back on this build after some life-related distractions. I've got several of the components decalled and ready for assembly, I am now working on the fuselage/lower wing. I am doing A1083 which has a CDL fuselage, so I need to do a bit of preshading to show some of the structure underneath the CDL. After many hours (I HATE masking!!), the fuselage looked like this:
I am a top level nerd, so you might notice I have masked off the roundel and fuselage stripe. This is because IMO these areas will not show the underlying structure in the same way as the CDL, because they are overpainted on the CDL and therefore have different opacity. I am using Aviattic decals which have the roundel and fuselage stripe on the CDL decal, so these areas need to be masked off. I hope I got them in the right place.....
I then airbrushed some Army Painter Soft Tone ink over the masked areas. I felt the effect was too extreme when I removed the masking tape, so I lightly oversprayed with
white to tone it down. Here's what it looks like now:
I'm happy with that. I will add some oil staining along the fuselage edges, spray the aluminium and wood areas, and then it's on to decalling the fuselage and lower wings.